Germany needs to have a handicap, like in golf. They ought to start each match with two goals in advance to their opposition.

What FC Bayern has become is thanks to Gerd Mueller.

It is not the strong one that wins, the one that wins is strong.

Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.

It would make me a lot happier if I could meet up again next year with as many friends as possible from all over the world who I've met during my career. That's where the great opportunity lies, for me personally, in our role as World Cup host.

You have to sometimes shoot from the second row, that's all football. So you have to be a bit more flexible.

Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world every day. Young or old, players or fans, rich or poor, the game makes everyone equal, stirs the imagination, makes people happy and makes them sad